Longitudinal Comparison of Bacterial Diversity and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in New York City Sewage.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a pressing health issue around the world, not only in health care settings but also in the community and environment, particularly in crowded urban populations. The aim of our work was to characterize the microbial populations in sewage and the spread of antibiotic resistance within New York City (NYC). Here, we investigated the structure of the microbiome and the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in raw sewage samples collected from the fourteen NYC Department of Environmental Protection wastewater treatment plants, distributed across the five NYC boroughs. Sewage, a direct output of anthropogenic activity and a reservoir of microbes, provides an ecological niche to examine the spread of antibiotic resistance. Taxonomic diversity analysis rev

SUBMITTER: Joseph SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687945 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature